Bio·R Planting Festival: Frahns Farm 2025

Join us for the 2025 Bio·R Planting Festival as we work together to reconstruct habitat for biodiversity!

This year, our goal is to plant 58,000 native seedlings 🌱 across 29 hectares 🌏 with the help of 850 amazing volunteers 🤠 - these numbers represent a 20% increase from last year. 

Tickets & catering contribution

To help manage catering and reduce food waste, we introduced a ticket structure that covers the catering costs.

• Adult (full contribution): $28
• Adult (partial contribution): $15
• Teen (13-17 years): $15
• Child (0-12 years): Free

Your ticket includes lunch, afternoon tea, tea, coffee, and water throughout the day. All meals are vegetarian. 

Important:

• Please advise any dietary requirements during registration.
• Please bring a plate, bowl, mug, and utensils - we’ll have a wash-up station on site.

Location

The festival will take place at Frahns Farm, Monarto - the entrance will be the same as last year, at our Frahns Farm (Frahns Farm Rd Site - East) gate. 

Daily schedule

🌱 9:30 AM – Arrival, briefing & morning planting session
🍽️ 12:00 PM onwards – Staggered lunch begins
🌱 1:00 PM onwards – Afternoon planting session
☕ 3:00 PM – Afternoon tea
🌱 3:30 PM – Join a guided property restoration tour with a Bio·R ecologist, assist with plant watering, or head home

What to bring

• Weather-appropriate clothing (sun, wind, rain)
• Sturdy footwear (work boots, gumboots)
• Gardening gloves & hand trowel/mattock
• Water bottle
• Plate, bowl, mug & cutlery
• Chair or picnic rug
• Personal medication (asthma puffer, EpiPen, pain relief)

Other useful items

• Bucket (to carry tools & water bottle)
• Kneeling pad/stool for comfort whilst planting
• Waterproof bag (for dirty boots & wet gear)

About Bio·R

Bio·R is a South Australian grassroots charity dedicated to reconstructing habitats for native wildlife.

Our long-term goals:

🌏 100 hectares of habitat per year by 2032
🌏 1,000 hectares per year by 2045

Acknowledgement of Country

We acknowledge that this event will take place on the traditional lands of the Ngarrindjeri people and respect their elders past, present and emerging. We appreciate the Ngarrindjeri people's innate and deep spiritual connection with the land and waters of this region and aspire to work alongside them in taking care of land and community.